WIP Young Miniatures Arabian Knight bust
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Hello Everybody,
Nigel, Simon, Nap, and Malc... thanks for the kind words - very appreciated!
This post will be a relatively short post on the shield that comes with the bust. It'll also be a nice change of pace going from fabrics to metallics. Lets dive right into it...
For the first bits, the paints used were:
(From L to R)
As the shield is fairly flat and circular, we're going to go with a radial lighting scheme. This will essentially cut the shield into alternating pie pieces of light, dark, light, dark, etc... In our case the lightest will be the piece of the pie at the top of the shield. (this will make much more sense when you see it
). If the shield was more convex or bowed shaped, then I probably wouldn't go for this kind of scheme. I would probably go for something closer to what you'd see on a sphere.
After figuring this out, let's go ahead and paint in our lights:
Seeing the pic, it should be obvious now what I mean by radial lighting. What's really nice about this kind of lighting scheme is that it becomes very, very clear where the shadows should go now. Let's add them and blend them in:
Here I decided I wanted to add a little warmth and some extra tonality to the transition areas so I blended in a little bit of Transparent Brown (Schmincke Mussini) between all the highlight and shadow borders:
You can also see that I added an additional highlight area in the middle of the shadow area on the right, bottom part of the shield. It helped break things up and add a little bit more complexity to the lighting.
Now that we have our basic lights and shadows applied, I wanted to really bring out all the inlay detail in the shield. So, we do an intermediary step of black lining all the major areas and details. This was done using pure Ivory Black with some additional Linseed oil added to thin it down a bit:
I think that helps quite a bit in making the details stand out. At this step for some reason, I skipped the inner ring of inlays, but that will be fixed in a minute.
Now were going to highlight some additional details using gold colors. First we painted in a base tone using Bronze Iridescent paint from Williamsburg:
Next we highlighted this in deliberate areas with Classic Gold from Schmincke's Norma Oil line:
In additional to the additional gold highlights, here you can see that I went back and added the black lining to the inner ring. Let's add some more highlights:
This round of highlights was adding in Iridescent White from Winsor & Newton into the Classic Gold, and then applying this into a smaller section of the previously area.
To finish the shield off, I added more highlights of pure Iridescent White into selected areas over the entire shield, and highlighted small areas and parts of all the inlays:
That's it for the shield. Next is the Turban - which you can see is finished in the photo above...
Thanks for reading!
Regards,
-Phil
Nigel, Simon, Nap, and Malc... thanks for the kind words - very appreciated!
This post will be a relatively short post on the shield that comes with the bust. It'll also be a nice change of pace going from fabrics to metallics. Lets dive right into it...
For the first bits, the paints used were:
(From L to R)
- Ivory Black (Williamsburg) - Used for our shadows
- Neutral Tint (Old Holland) - Also used for our shadows, this will give them a little bit of a violet shade
- White Gold (Schmencke Mussini) - Main silver metallic color
- Zinc White (Old Holland) - Ignore this... I have no idea why it's in the picture?!
As the shield is fairly flat and circular, we're going to go with a radial lighting scheme. This will essentially cut the shield into alternating pie pieces of light, dark, light, dark, etc... In our case the lightest will be the piece of the pie at the top of the shield. (this will make much more sense when you see it
). If the shield was more convex or bowed shaped, then I probably wouldn't go for this kind of scheme. I would probably go for something closer to what you'd see on a sphere.After figuring this out, let's go ahead and paint in our lights:
Seeing the pic, it should be obvious now what I mean by radial lighting. What's really nice about this kind of lighting scheme is that it becomes very, very clear where the shadows should go now
. Let's add them and blend them in:
Here I decided I wanted to add a little warmth and some extra tonality to the transition areas so I blended in a little bit of Transparent Brown (Schmincke Mussini) between all the highlight and shadow borders:
You can also see that I added an additional highlight area in the middle of the shadow area on the right, bottom part of the shield. It helped break things up and add a little bit more complexity to the lighting.
Now that we have our basic lights and shadows applied, I wanted to really bring out all the inlay detail in the shield. So, we do an intermediary step of black lining all the major areas and details. This was done using pure Ivory Black with some additional Linseed oil added to thin it down a bit:
I think that helps quite a bit in making the details stand out. At this step for some reason, I skipped the inner ring of inlays, but that will be fixed in a minute
.Now were going to highlight some additional details using gold colors. First we painted in a base tone using Bronze Iridescent paint from Williamsburg:
Next we highlighted this in deliberate areas with Classic Gold from Schmincke's Norma Oil line:
In additional to the additional gold highlights, here you can see that I went back and added the black lining to the inner ring. Let's add some more highlights:
This round of highlights was adding in Iridescent White from Winsor & Newton into the Classic Gold, and then applying this into a smaller section of the previously area.
To finish the shield off, I added more highlights of pure Iridescent White into selected areas over the entire shield, and highlighted small areas and parts of all the inlays:
That's it for the shield. Next is the Turban - which you can see is finished in the photo above...
Thanks for reading!
Regards,
-Phil
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